The american president threatens athletes who denounce racism in kneeling down when the anthem is played in stadiums.
Donald Trump was erected as a defender of symbols of the United States : the Stars and Stripes, the United States flag and the Star Spangled Banner, the anthem.
It just cause a media storm, since he has called, Friday, September 22, in Alabama, the owners of the franchises, american football (NFL) dismiss athletes who expressed their discontent by kneeling when the anthem is played in stadiums to denounce racism.After the NFL, this is the league of basketball (NBA), which has made the cost of the anger of the president. Saturday morning, Donald Trump has announced on Twitter that he cancelled the invitation to Stephen Curry, one of the star players of the Golden State Warriors, who had the wrong to know that he was not willing to travel to the White House, a tradition for the basketball players who won the last national title in date.Since his coronation in June, the team Oakland is in a great deal of opposition to the president Trump. Kevin Durant, another player iconic, had announced in August that it boycotterait the visit. "I don't respect the person who occupies the position at the moment, I do not agree with him, I'm going to make hear my voice by not making me not," he explained.
According to Kevin Durant, the players have not digested the words of the american president, who had turned his back on the white-supremacist and anti-fascists for the violence of Charlottesville.